WE HAVE GOOD DAYS.

**before reading this post, watch the short clip from Joe Rogan Experience #1262 w/Pat McNamara by going to the bottom of this post or clicking this link: https://youtu.be/6NH17Ohse_o?t=438

I find what Joe Rogan is talking about here very powerful and I think that it is something that a lot of people can relate to at some degree however it also often gets forgotten. All you need to set good habits and get started is to gather momentum.

As a biomechanics concept, momentum is an object or body’s (i.e. us as humans) resistance to change in its state of motion. That, in my opinion, can be applied to much more than just biomechanics.

We have all heard someone (or ourselves) say that the hardest part of doing something is just getting started. This is true in the biomechanics application of momentum, and it’s true here as well. We often feel that whatever it is that we are putting off is some impossible task, or takes too much effort, or will take too much work to complete. Whatever it is we always have a hundred excuses to not do something. This is fine, and there are times to slow down, however, if the not doing itself is making you unhappy with your self, then you need to ‘change your state of motion’.

And that means overcoming this initial lack of momentum. While that is hard, often we just need to bite the bullet and get to it, that part takes some grit. But grit is good. I know I still need to develop some grit doing more things that aren’t inherently easy and I think that it is a great quality to develop. So just get started.

Once you get started though, that’s your “one good day”. One good day of nutrition, training, and work OR EVEN just one good day of making your bed. Whatever your goal is (it is even good to start small) you go out and achieve it. Then from there, tomorrow is easier than today, you have momentum, so why not just do what you are aiming to do? The more momentum you gather, the more difficult it is now to slow back down. Get it done, don’t let your past self down, and succeed again and again and again.

This of course is easier said than done, but I guess that’s why we have grit.

Video from: Joe Rogan Experience #1262 w/Pat McNamara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMw8u0VrELs